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DDG Trivia Places 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Canadian province got its name from the Iroquois word guilibek, meaning "place where waters narrow"? | Quebec. |
| What country's farthest southern and northern points are Land's End and John o' Groats, respectively? | Britain's. |
| What New York City landmark is the largest movie theater in the U.S.? | Radio City Music Hall. |
| What's the world's longest road, running from Texas to Valparaiso, Chile? | The Pan-American Highway. |
| What $7.2 million purchase did one senator call "an awful lot of ice for an awful lot of dollars," in 1867? | Alaska. |
| What European capital's Potsdamer Platz was busy enough to warrant the world's first traffic light? | Berlin's. |
| What was the most populous state in the U.S. for the last time in 1800? | Virginia. |
| What Nepalese city name means "wooden temples"? | Katmandu. |
| What Egyptian city was built up during the Middle Ages from limestone stripped off the exterior of the Great Pyramid? | Cairo. |
| What Yukon mining district was the site of the 1890s gold rush? | The Klondike. |
| What Texas city along Route 66 got its name from the Spanish word for yellow? | Amarillo. |
| What two republics make up the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? | Montenegro and Serbia. |
| What Scandinavian country last fought in a war in 1814? | Sweden. |
| What U.S. state's public golf courses have the highest average green fees? | Hawaii's. |
| What former Soviet republic joined Russia as one of the world's ten largest countries? | Kazakhstan. |
| What Arab country's national dish is a soup called fool? | Egypt's. |
| What continent are you on if you're lost in the eastern tip of Egypt? | Asia. |
| What continent has the fewest flowering plants? | Antarctica. |
| What country lies on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula? | Portugal. |
| What volatile nation was the first Caribbean country to gain independence? | Haiti. |
| What barnyard animal utterance is known in France as groin groin? | Oink-Oink. |
| What southern state capital got its name for being the terminus of the Western & Atlantic Railroad? | Atlanta. |
| What desert's name was inspired by the array of colors that erosion has exposed there? | The Painted Desert's. |
| What Berlin landmark had lost over 60 tons in shipments to the U.S. by 1990? | The Berlin Wall. |
| What was the biggest city in America until 1755? | Boston. |
| What U.S. city had three of the world's five tallest man-made structures in 1994? | Chicago. |
| What cave mammals inspired some folks to dub Nebraska the "Bug-eating State"? | Bats. |
| What Asian country has the world's lowest amount of urban green space per person? | Japan. |
| What country went metric to join the European Community, but kept the pint for use in pubs and for milk? | Britain. |
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